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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Christian Kidnapped for $100,000 Ransom |
| 2011-05-15 |
| [An Nahar] A Christian man in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has been kidnapped and is being held for a $100,000 ransom, police said Saturday. Kirkuk deputy police chief Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman said the victim is a construction worker who did not come home from work Friday night. When officials called his mobile phone on Saturday, the kidnappers answered and demanded the money. Parliament politician Imad Yohanna, a Christian from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... said the man was kidnapped because he is Christian. Yohanna said Christians are seen as easy targets because they usually pay ransom without a fight, as opposed to Arabs whose tribes generally attack to free the victim. Abdul-Rahman said 43 people from different ethnic groups have been kidnapped in Kirkuk this year. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 A $100,000 ransom for a construction worker? Yeah, his family shouldn't have any problem coughing that up. Notice they don't mention who kidnapped him. But I think it just might--might!--have been a Muslim group. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2011-05-15 20:02 |